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 Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 9:49 am
When he’d first powered up, Amesite hadn’t intended to go anywhere special or do anything amazing. He was going to get a little energy, just enough to keep Cavansite off his back, and then go home, because he’d had a long workday already and he just wanted some sleep. He’d finally gotten a few days off and was going to relax and wanted nothing more to be home and in bed.
Being forced to be out in Destiny City was bad enough—but when a strange mirror and rippled and sucked him into it, that was just straight up awful. Pure white walls, with a strange smoky substance.
No doors. No ceiling panels, no holes in the ground.
No way out.
For what felt like hours he checked every area of the room, running his fingers over everything he could reach, shuffling over the floor. He started to get frantic; if this was some Negaverse test, no one had told him about it; his stomach was churning. He was hungry and tired and trapped in a white room with no way out.
This was not the staycation he’d been dreaming of.
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 1:11 pm
Andalusite should have known better.
In a city where anything could happen. Where you could get half mauled by a mutated looking pig that just so happened to be one of the monsters that the organization that you joined uses…well, why would you think that anything was normal. Why wouldn’t you think that you could fall backwards through a mirror when taking a break to enjoy the cool breeze that was going on tonight?
It was only logical. And stupid.
He looked around the room, frowning, but pleased that there was at least another person there. Another agent by the feel of it and…and when he saw just who it was.
Well. Andalusite felt a rage start to build in him. Or, perhaps not a rage, not yet, but something close enough. “You!” The word flew from him and he scrambled to his feet, scowling. “Seriously. You’re part of the Negaverse? So…you drained me. What a d**k move!” He had completely forgotten the fact that the other male in the room wouldn’t be able to tell that he was the same guy he had drained…for he was sure that’s what had happened. There had been no reason to be so damn tired…
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 1:18 pm
Amesite did not immediately recognize the man in front of him; he knew that he wouldn’t have drained a Negaverse Agent, but the voice in the back of his head told him that if he’d drained the civilian of one, wouldn’t they have warned him to back off before he did it?
…Unless this was some guy he’d drained before the Negaverse recruited him, but theoretically that could have been anyone he’d drained.
Amesite squinted at the lieutenant in front of him and shrugged almost immediately afterwards. “Well, obviously I’m part of the Negaverse,” he said simply. “If I drained you, you probably deserved it, but I don’t even remember you so I can’t imagine you even made that much of an impression.”
…But, it occurred to him that there were now two agents in this small room together, and he didn’t quite know if it was a test yet. In case someone was watching, he figured he ought to play a little nicer, so he asked, “Jog my memory? Maybe I had a good reason, what was going on when it happened?”
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 1:28 pm
The lieutenant scoffed, summoning his boomerang to his hand, hoping that made him look more powerful…it didn’t really make him feel more powerful…but hey. Maybe he could at least get the corner of the toy into this other lieutenant’s eye. That would make him feel better.
“How could you not remember? I was walking home from the library, you made up some stupid story about there being something in the bushes, walked with me a bit and I suppose I didn’t realize what you were doing, but oh do I realize what you did now. Because. Hey buddy. Look at me. Now I’m in the club too. And you. You’re an a**.”
It might have been just a misunderstanding. There was a part of Andalusite’s brain that tried to assure him of that. It had to have been. This other agent had no way of knowing that Tobias would join just a few days later…it wasn’t something that people could really know beforehand. But…still. He didn’t seem very apologetic, and that just pissed him off more.
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 2:57 pm
Recognition flashed across Amesite’s face immediately, because he remembered exactly who he told that lie to, and exactly how much he’d enjoyed draining him.
His stupid, spoiled, bratty little brother, Tobias.
Who was now in the Negaverse and was ruining it for him.
Amesite had worked hard to get here! Cavansite had noticed him from his hard work, and she had said she thought he was a good match, and he was. He hit all of his quotas, went above and beyond, and was even starting to like doing this.
If he hadn’t been standing in front of Tobias, he was so mad that he could have stomped his foot and screamed, because no matter what he did, Tobias wound up with him.
As demanding and pompous as ever.
In a huff, Amesite gestured to the lieutenants outfit. “Sorry I didn’t recognize you while you were powered up?” He wasn’t sorry, at all. “You just seemed like some dumbass walking home in the middle of the night. You made yourself a prime target, what was I supposed to do? Let you go?” He crossed his arms over his chest, annoyed that Tobias even had a boomerang, and all he had was a head whisk.
“I don’t know why they recruited you. I didn’t think there was any thing special about you when I was draining you.”
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 5:50 pm
The expression Andalusite wore was one akin to a person who had just fell face first into dog s**t. “Obviously you were wrong then, it’s no wonder you’re nothing more than a lieutenant. They obviously don’t want to give someone so lacking in the ability to see talent, any sort of promotion. Now, myself. I can see me moving up in the ranks soon. In fact, I’ve been told that I’m destined to be the best. Or, one of the best, at least.”
So he had heard no such thing and was still so new to the whole game that there was no hope of moving up anywhere right now, but it felt good to boast, and he said it with more than enough confidence to fool anyone.
“I wasn’t some dumbass. There’s nothing to be feared in the night. We’re the ones that the others should fear. We’re the ones with the power.”
He had to draw in a breath, the hand holding the boomerang twitching slightly, as though all he wanted to do was throw it right in this smug assholes face. And then suddenly, the object was flying from his hand, slipping from his shoddy grip and going right for the darker haired male’s face…and Andalusite couldn’t stop the grin from covering his own.
“…Oops.”
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 6:03 pm
The boomerang hit Amesite—right in the bridge of his nose.
He recoiled; the pain shot through his face immediately and if there weren’t a wall behind him, he would have stumbled back. Immediately, his hands went to his face and he tried to feel the area. He wasn’t a doctor, but he didn’t think it was broken. Or, at least, he prayed that it wasn’t. Blood was still dripping from his nose and he tried to catch it only to realize it didn’t matter. He wiped his nose on the back of his sleeve and knelt, picking up Andalusite’s boomerang. Angrily, he threw it back at the lieutenant, but he wasn’t aiming for anything in particular.
Throwing a little stick wasn’t going to give him any satisfaction, anyway.
“You little s**t,” he seethed, lurching from his position. He was larger than Tobias, but he never had the opportunity to use that against him. Not when Tobias could just run off and tell Mom. No, here, he didn’t have anyone to run to, and suddenly Amesite didn’t even care if this was a test.
He didn’t have to hold back; he drew his arm back and slugged the man in front of him as hard as he could, right in the face.
“I’ll wipe that grin off your face, so help me, God, I will kick your a**. Apologize!” he demanded, drawing his arm back with the intention to dig his fist into his brother’s gut.
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 6:41 pm
He had been about to apologize. He hadn’t really meant to make the other lieutenant bleed. The boomerang had just slipped, after all but…but now he was being punched in the face and right in the eye. “Jesus ********! You crazy a*****e.” The boomerang had hit him in the gut, but that had been nothing compared to the punch, and the second fist that made its way into his gut as well. This…this was not what he had expected, and up went his knee, aiming for where he hoped the groin of this jerk was located.
“You’ll wipe the grin off of my face? I was about to apologize, maybe if you let half a moment pass. I didn’t throw the damn thing at you on purpose!.”
And the Negaverse had idiots, violent idiots in the ranks like this guy? He would have to talk to Ashanite about this. See if there was anything that could be done. Someone who was so willing to attack one of his own…was dangerous.
His hand groped for something to grab onto, and he secured his fingers around a fistful of the other male’s long, dark hair, pulling with every ounce of his strength. “Get off of me, you savage.”
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 6:55 pm
Tobias was playing dirty. Dirtier than Amesite had been playing, and it just made him mad. A hit to the groin? So rude???
Pain shot through him from the knee shot and from the tugging on his hair, but Amesite couldn’t ********,” he hissed, and added, “Knock it off! You started this! I don’t care if it was an accident or not, you say sorry, you don’t smile! Who taught you manners?”
Nobody, because Tobias was just so perfect the way he was.
He didn’t know if he could stand on his legs more; he really just wanted to drop to his knees and catch his breath after the shot between his legs, so he jerked Andalusite to the side and tried to drop him to the ground.
It was effective, to a degree, but Amesite wound up falling on top of him. He tried to get a good grip on the other Lieutenant’s hair but his fingers quickly tangled, so he just pushed his face down against the ground and tried to keep him pinned. “You can’t call me a savage if you can’t even apologize, so just spit it out and we can be done with this. Say you’re sorry or,” he grunted, trying to free his own hair from Tobias’ clutches, “I’m going to give you a bald spot.”
He tugged the hair his fingers were caught in, just a bit, for effect.
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Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 6:29 pm
With a snort, Andalusite was about to make a scathing retort, but the next moment he found himself on the floor with this jerk on top of him. “Get the hell off of me, you crazy s**t.”
All of this because he smiled? Seriously? “Haven’t you ever heard of a reflex? Jesus get the hell off of me!” He pulled the hair that was still clutched in his own hand and tried wriggling out from under the male, wincing as his own hair was pulled. “I’m not sorry for s**t now. I told you that I was about to say that I was, and you decided to be a s**t and—“
The lieutenant froze mid sentence, frowning from the strange cracking and crumbling noise reached his ear.
Now what the hell was going on. “You’ve really got us into a ******** horrible situation, you asshat.”
And then the floor gave way.
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